Well, I only own every (official EON productions) Bond film so far released on DVD so I guess I qualify to comment, right?
I only started reading the Bond books long after the films. I picked up a bunch of tattered paperbacks in Haye-on-Wye, and of them only got round to reading Goldfinger. I've since bought and read a reprint of Casino Royale (prior to the movie).
Goldfinger the book, and Goldfinger the film, are pretty close approximations of each other. (But there's no laser-between-the-legs "No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!" moment in the book.)
Casino Royale the film has, at it's core (i.e. the middle hour or so) the book: the card game, the characters, the betrayal. Except it's a different card game, in a different part of the world.
The books are of another world, and Bond of the books is a complete misogynist, but they have car chases and fights and action... they never pretend to be great literature, they never pretend to be relevant or realistic even for the time they were written. In other words, they're fantasies, and in general fantasies need to be timeless. Bond just about succeeds in this.
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I only started reading the Bond books long after the films. I picked up a bunch of tattered paperbacks in Haye-on-Wye, and of them only got round to reading Goldfinger. I've since bought and read a reprint of Casino Royale (prior to the movie).
Goldfinger the book, and Goldfinger the film, are pretty close approximations of each other. (But there's no laser-between-the-legs "No Mr Bond, I expect you to die!" moment in the book.)
Casino Royale the film has, at it's core (i.e. the middle hour or so) the book: the card game, the characters, the betrayal. Except it's a different card game, in a different part of the world.
The books are of another world, and Bond of the books is a complete misogynist, but they have car chases and fights and action... they never pretend to be great literature, they never pretend to be relevant or realistic even for the time they were written. In other words, they're fantasies, and in general fantasies need to be timeless. Bond just about succeeds in this.